Youths?

AT Hiker said:

My 8yr old isn't interested, soccer and a birthday party is more important to her. I often wonder if she is really my kid

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I feel ya. My son killed his only turkey at 8 and never got hooked. Hasn't been after them in years and hasn't deer hunted in 2-3 due to work and a girl. He's 19 now.

My 13 yr old daughter has ball practice at 10. What were they thinking. We will b their as soon as that is done with. She has pretty good luck with them. We will see this year.

Good luck guys!

I took a kid today (to me... he's 25 ) today on my lease. After 6 miles, we finally found a bird, repositioned on him, and he flat out missed at 35y (12g 3.5in LB XRs 6)... never seen a MS bird do this, but he flushed back 15y, then just stood there. He was about to shoot again, but I called him off the 2nd shot. He just eased off in the woods completely uninjured. Tried to call him back in, but no luck. He acted like a pet bird.

I'll be sitting here waiting to read the stories and see the pics. Good luck to everyone taking a kid in the morning.

Taking my 6 year old. Weather gonna be tough on him, but he says he'll hang in there! Good luck everyone!

I hope y'all kill em in the morning. Going to try to get after them with my nephew tomorrow afternoon.

My son caught a nap, lol. We put eyes on a nice Tom at about 80 yards, but I couldn't get him away from the four hen's he was trailing.

Chased a couple different flocks this morning with Shortie. Put about 3 miles on our boot leather in some really wet low lying timber. Couldn't get the boss hen mad enough to drag ol butterball our way but we sure had a heck of a good time and heard some good gobbling!

Some ugly kid sent me this

Heard 1 gobble at daylight. No clucks or anything else. Got back to the truck and one was hammering up the hill. Set up and called twice but he just slowly worked away from me, guessing with hens

She got one about 4:15. No gobbling. Very windy. Just sneaking and repositioning to finally get in range.

muddyboots said:

She got one about 4:15. No gobbling. Very windy. Just sneaking and repositioning to finally get in range.

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Congrats!!!

Bring back Eli

My son toted one out this morning. It was more like deer hunting weather.

Not a 'youth'... but here's my 17yo son this morn in MS... darn video games till 1am makes it hard to hang turkey hunting. We called in 4 jakes to 5 yards, had a tom gobble once on the roost 200y away, 4 more times till 9 am on the ground, but couldn't pull his single hen closer than 80y to us. Had to leave at 9a for a meeting, but it was still fun (for me )